Current research interests
- Physical stratigraphy (sequence stratigraphy)
- Taphonomy and palaeoecology of bioconstructions
- Terrestrial carbonates
Present research projects
- 'Catastrophic rockslides in the Alps' (Co-proponent, together with Marc Ostermann)
- 'Lower Permian cyclic sediments and reef mounds of the Carnic Alps and in New Mexico
Teaching
- History of Earth and evolution of life
- Sedimentary facies and environments
- Sedimentary facies and environments, 2
- Principles of stratigraphy
- Physical stratigraphy
- Sequence stratigraphy
- Carbonate sequence stratigraphy
- Field mapping
- Palaeontological interpretation of thin sections
- Carbonate sedimentology
- Environment and sediments
- Depositional systems
- Basin development
- Principles of palaeoclimatology and palaeoceanography
- Geomorphology for geologists
- Guided field excursions (Alps, Apennines, Florida-Bahamas, Pyrenees)
- Seminars: Global Change, Recent Tropical Carbonates, Palaeoclimate indicators
- Sedimentary records and palaeoceanography (together with Michael Sarnthein)